Introduction

I have recently graduated from a British medical school and will begin junior doctoring, somewhere in the NHS, next month. I hope to use this blog to reflect on what I expect to be a rather significant year. Medicine occasionally affords glimpses of the wheels that turn when both human life and its meaning hang in the balance. Perhaps I will at times succeed in giving an impression of the view.

For my own as well as my future colleagues' and patients' sakes, I will endeavour to anonymise all related events. Names, times, places and inconsequential details are likely to be altered or obscured in order to achieve this.